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	How Apple topped Microsoft Apple spends just a fraction of what Microsoft does on acquisitions and R&D, yet it now has a higher market capitalization because it gives users what they want. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now In this Issue Microsoft launches Expedia version of Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft counters report of Google's dumping Windows Why does the open source community love Apple? IE6 in death throes, usage drops below 5% Outlook 2007: 10 top tips Bing gives Microsoft search credibilty -- and pushes Google Microsoft Windows Phone 7 should rule business smartphones Office Tab makes it easier to manage open Office docs Microsoft Tag: You're it E-GUIDE: Compuware Perfecting Application Performance The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now. Microsoft launches Expedia version of Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft has joined forces with travel website Expedia to launch a version of Internet Explorer 8 aimed at web users looking for holiday bargains online. Read More Microsoft counters report of Google's dumping Windows On the heels of a report that Google will phase out Windows in its workplace over security concerns, Microsoft stood up for its operating system. Read More Why does the open source community love Apple? Attend any computer conference these days and you can expect that almost every giveaway is an iPad. In fact, I recently attended a conference for a Microsoft oriented customer group and the talk of the attendees was Apple and how excited they were to possibly win an iPad from the vendors in the exhibit hall. It makes me wonder, why isn't the open source community in a complete uproar against Apple the same way that they are against Microsoft? Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell File Management Suite Better track and understand storage patterns, allocate and manage storage based on its relevance and value to the business, while saving money in the administration and procurement of storage resources. Learn to get a handle on the unchecked proliferation of data. Read Now IE6 in death throes, usage drops below 5% Usage of Internet Explorer 6 has finally fallen below 5% in the United States and Europe, perhaps signaling the end is near for Microsoft's nine-year-old IE6 browser. Read More Outlook 2007: 10 top tips Hate it or love it, there's a good chance that you use Microsoft Outlook, still the most popular e-mail client on the planet. Outlook 2010 for Windows was just released, but only to businesses, who may take a while to switch to the new version. Office 2010 won't be available to individual users until later this spring. So we thought this was a good time to help you with the Outlook you're most likely using (and still getting used to) now -- Outlook 2007. Read More Bing gives Microsoft search credibilty -- and pushes Google Analysts are generally positive about Microsoft's Bing search engine despite Google's continued dominance of the search business. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP SMB: Strategy Guide to Risk Mitigation This strategy guide offers concrete risk mitigation techniques specifically designed for midsize organizations. Learn how to proactively manage physical and virtual systems and see the early signs of infrastructure trouble to avoid outages. Read Now! Microsoft Windows Phone 7 should rule business smartphones When it comes to smartphones, Windows Phone 7 should arguably be the de facto platform for business professionals, but Microsoft may be delivering too little, too late. Read More Office Tab makes it easier to manage open Office docs Office Tab ($25, 30-day free trial) solves one of Microsoft Office's shortcomings: How to handle multiple documents open in different windows. Unlike Web browsers, Office doesn't use tabs, so you can't see at a glance all the documents you're working on, and it's not easy to switch between them. Office Tab solves the problem by putting tabs on Office, Excel, and PowerPoint. Read More Microsoft Tag: You're it The minds at Microsoft threw the beta off Tag, an innovative mobile phone barcode-scanning service that holds nearly limitless possibilities when it comes to . . . just about anything. Read More
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